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Foreverfamily Presents Chris Wildeman Author of Children of the Prison Boom

Thursday, January 15, 2015 from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM (EST)

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Thank you for registering! We look forward to seeing you at the Rialto on Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 6:00pm.
Please arrive to the Rialto by 6:15pm. Remaining tickets will be given to those on the wait list beginning at 6:20pm. The event will be in the lobby.
Questions? Email sbarnhill@foreverfam.org or call Foreverfamily, 404-223-1200.

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Foreverfamily invites you to join us for an evening with Christopher Wildeman, Professor at Cornell University and Author of Children of the Prison Boom: Mass Incarceration and the Future of American Inequality. In an effort to raise awareness of children of the incarcerated and their families, Dr. Wildeman will make a presentation about his research and findings about this understudied population, followed by a Q&A and book signing.

The event will be held in the lobby of Georgia State's Rialto Center for the Arts at the corner of Forsyth and Luckie Streets. A reception for the author will begin at 6pm and he will speak at 6:45pm.

We ask that you please pre-register by January 5, 2015. We cannot guarantee seating for at the door sign-ups.

We'd like to thank our co-sponsors: Georgia State University Department of African American Studies; Clark Atlanta University Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice; Davis Bozeman Law Firm; Barton Child Law and Policy Center of Emory University Law School; Emory University Department of Sociology, Department of Political Science, and The Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative; Georgia Justice Project; John Marshall Law School Office of Probono Services and Experiential Learning; JUST Georgia; and Voices for Georgia's Children as well as our supporters: Georgia's Department of Human Services and the Governor's Office of Transition, Support, and Reentry.

Thursday, January 15, 2015 from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM (EST)

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Foreverfamily is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that has been providing support services to children of the incarcerated and their families for 30 years. Through research-based, intergenerational programming, we work to instill core values in children with incarcerated parents that will assist them in making positive life choices, to strengthen the family bond between child, incarcerated parent and caregiver, and to decrease the incarceration and criminal involvement rate of children with incarcerated parents.

Foreverfamily provides monthly transportation for children to visit their incarcerated parent at prisons across Georgia. Research shows that regular in-person visitation improves children's self-esteem and is associated with avoidance of risky behaviors and improved performance in school. While parental incarceration is a risk factor for poor academic performance, delinquency, substance abuse, and adverse adulthood outcomes including incarceration, Foreverfamily children prove that, surrounded by the love of family, success is achievable.